Kay Redfield Jamison, author of the autobiography An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Jamison, 1995), is a 51 year old White female. She was born into a military family and moved around the world and the United States until age 15, when her father retired from service and took a job in California, taking his family with him. Jamison continues her education at a new high school where she struggles with the transition to a new location and lifestyle and changing dynamics within her family as her father begins his new job. Eventually, Jamison attends UCLA as an undergraduate student in psychology and joins one of her professor’s research laboratories. Upon graduation, she continued her education at the university through their doctorate …show more content…
38). The major swing between elation and depression that Jamison experiences is a clear sign of the one necessary symptom of Bipolar I disorder, and these swings do not go away throughout the book. Later on, in describing another mood shift, Jamison says, “my classwork during these galvanized periods seemed very straightforward, and I found examinations, laboratory work, and papers almost absurdly easy” (Jamison, 1995, p. 44) before saying “my mood would crash and my mind again would grind to a halt. I lost all interest in my schoolwork, friends, reading, wandering, or daydreaming” (Jamison, 1995, p. 44). The drastic and immediate mood shift shown here is another case of this swing from elation to depression, as shown in the anhedonia Jamison experiences in the second quote. Another symptom Jamison experiences is racing thoughts, with one instance being described as “My thoughts were so fast that I couldn’t remember the beginning of a sentence halfway through. Fragments of ideas, images, sentences raced around and around in my mind.” (Jamison, 1995, p.
created a century ago by Alfred Nobel. It is very interesting to know what motivated Nobel to dedicate his fortune to honoring those who benefited humanity. When his brother Ludwig died in 1888, a French newspaper made an obituary, news article that reports of Alfred Nobel’s death, along with his personal life and information. They believed it was Alfred Nobel not his brother. So, while Nobel was alive he read his obituary./ That described Nobel as a man who had made it possible to kill more people more
Lithium Though the drug lithium is used for a number of disorders ranging from acute depression to eating and personality disorders (Paykel, 1992), it's primary use is for bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression. Patients with bipolar disorder "between two poles: depression and its opposite, mania" (Kalat,2004), often with periods of normal behavior in between (Jamison,1993). In addition, the patient is also prone to "mixed episodes" in which symptoms of both mania and depression
The story of Dracula started long before Brahm Stoker wrote his famous novel. Vampires have been in the minds of people since the early ninth century and, perhaps, even before that. The fact that the stories are still common after all these years brings out the question of, why? What makes these vampire stories so popular? The answer may be in the material itself. Taking a wide selection of vampire stories, including Brahm Stoker's classic, reveals a long list of similarities. Of course, not